since when uses ddg google or bing ?
Comment on Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge
Pantoffel@feddit.de 8 months agoThere are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google’s and/or Bing’s search results.
avater@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jamie@jamie.moe 8 months ago
DDG is Bing by proxy, has been for ages. A while back they had a controversy for having microsoft trackers or something like that, and mentioned it was some stipulation for using Bing results. But they still backed off on that anyway.
float@feddit.de 8 months ago
DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.
Source: Wikipedia
So it’s definitely not a “proxy to Bing” but it does use data from Bing.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kagi factors them in, but then goes beyond that to produce much better results.
help.kagi.com/kagi/…/search-sources.html
Pantoffel@feddit.de 8 months ago
Thanks, I didn’t know!